I managed to crash my DH4300+ using immich
So, I setup immich today, I have a massive photo library I wanted to integrate into it. I got immich all setup and made an external library pointed at my folder for 2014 (because it’s a lot smaller than my recent years) as a test. It was doing great, adding 14,000 photos in, generating thumbnails, facial recognition, maps, all the nice AI stuff that it’s able to do simultaneously. Quickly saw the CPU usage jump to 90-100% consistently, and after about 20 minutes it was crashing the NAS. All windows I had open would disappear, immich open in the web browser would loose connection and say server down, etc.. I decided to pause all the machine learning jobs until it’s done generating the 13,000 remaining thumbnails and up the fan speed, that seems to have kept it stable for now.
I did follow a guide on YouTube to enable it to utilize the NPU which it was but, it was still cooking the CPU, was sitting around 45 C.
I realize I’m asking a lot of this little NAS but…..
Is that normal behavior?
Am I risking my drives by pushing the CPU that hard?
This is all new to me so, any advice is appreciated. I’m a commercial photographer looking to not only have good file/folder organization but also to port that all to immich and have an easy way to go back and search for shots of certain places/objects/individuals. But also all the home use stuff as far as backing up my phone photos and images I take for fun on trips or at events that I might want to share with friends.